who remembers 'on this day' ? the 5 minute history segment at the end of the nights television broadcast...yes folks the tv stopped broadcasting around midnight for many years & then went all night over the weekends for a while, was it Bob Pucetti ? with a rough voice who hosted the mid-dawn show for a while

Every year on a particular date the Advertiser mentions in its "on this day" column that John Howard and KG Cunningham were born on the same day. I think it was 1938. Seen it in there each year for a few years, most recently about 2 weeks ago.

bayman wrote:who remembers 'on this day' ? the 5 minute history segment at the end of the nights television broadcast...yes folks the tv stopped broadcasting around midnight for many years & then went all night over the weekends for a while, was it Bob Pucetti ? with a rough voice who hosted the mid-dawn show for a while

Remember both of these very well, Station Close was a ceremonial thing in that era.

The Mid-Dawn Show was ahead of its time. Was indeed the American, Bob Pucetti, who used to have studio guests selling anything from garden supplies to used cars, in a studio format. He still lives in Adelaide and writes into newspapers from time to time.

I remember at the time, people were saying "these things always happen in 3's". Someone else slightly less well known did die around the same time, although I can't remember who the third person was, now.

57 years ago the western classic series Gunsmoke was aired635 episodes later in 1975 this iconic TV Western ended2 characters Matt Dillon[James Arness] and Doc Adams[Milburn Stone] played parts for the duration of the series

This was a show I used to watch, and still do occasionally on Foxtel 114Who can forget Kitty, Matt, Festus, Doc,Sam , and some of the othersThey are all deceased presently2 of the Gunsmiths from this programme are still aliveNewly played by Buck TaylorAnd another who went on to further screen greatness was Quint played by Burt Reynolds

And the most frequent villain in the Dodge City setting would have to be the guy that looks a bit like Merv Hughes, that dastardly Victor French

Julius Henry Groucho Marx was born on this dayGroucho is a lover of catsLookalike of Adelaide Bookmaker John ThorntonRead everything by Irish writer Iris MurdochDid a TV show called You Bet Your Life [or could have been called Bayman this is your life]Super band Queen had an album , A day at The Races , an album named after a a Marx brothers movieGrouchos had a wish that when he died he wanted to be buried on top of Marilyn Monroe

Groucho was very very good friends with Alice Cooper, Grouch loved Alice Coopers shows as it reminded him of Vaudeville & he took his contemporaries like Jack Benny to Alice Cooper shows, i'm sure on one of those albums there is a little cartoon type picture of Groucho on it..............

i've got an out take of You Bet Your Life when a girl came on similar looking to Marilyn Monroe &

Groucho says ''i see here (reading a cue card) you want to be a mother & be in show business, do you think you can do both''?

Girl, ''i think if you can keep your feet on the ground you can combine both''

Groucho ''if you keep your feet on the ground you'll never be a mother''